Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-05-13
A PIONEER GHOST.

with Roswell lRolla, as his boyhood
name was) to restore an early pio-
neer-sugar camp. a considera bleihit
of the primitive wood had been PIE
served, quite enough to hide the boil
ing works. The kettles were hung by
beech trummels. on a lug pole-there
were the store, trough, the sap yoke
and buckets, the small, rather too
neat cabin. Right about headquar-
tiers were the AK made sap troughs--,lll
as in the primitive times
The day-the last OF two or three
successive sun bright days, indicating
the ware OF the sugar season, and the
kindling OF the yenr-had been ali
that eingle day could well be.
1t was past, the girls were gone, and
night was making its approach seen
and felt in the ancient wood, helping
the cherished ilusions-the years turn
ed back. the grand forest restored, the
silent group i'll the deepening twilight
were boys again, I'M the depth OF the
woods. The girls were gone. 1t had
been a great DAY for them, old girls,
yet for the day, girls. They have ram
bled II little heavy-footed and slow,
through the woods, where the earlier
flowers of the spring began to show
themselves-the liverworts, blood
roots, the spray-like ground nuts, and
many budded spring beauty. In the
favored place few real leeks stabbed
up. There had been butterfly
seen Topping among the trees, l'ghting
on the sap sprouts, and many honey
bees, robins and blue birds were there
chicIladees, blue Jays and the nut
hatch-winter residents these last; all
these had been noted talked over
and the girls were gone. Ann, her
younger sister Helen, and one OF the
Dams went with them. So Elizabeth
and Minerva went with Evira for the
night Elderly girls-all called such
for the time.
The boys. Roosevelt, Monroe, anoth-
n Dan, Capt. John, OF the hundred
day company. William and Theo-
these last came down from Michigan;
stood rather pensiVely about therude
furnace and boiling copper kettles.
eonVer sing in subdued voices, in the
perceptible twilight under the primi-
tive trees. The fire was growing con.
spicuous, and its sparks visible A
colony OF frogs from the swale below
were making themselves heard, among
which were the piercing notes OF few
hylodes, which usually precede the
eroakers. 1--WE shan make any more
good sugar" Said Monroe, in his chest
tones.
"These are the first OF Them" said
Dan. "They will be frozen up three
times. No good sugar after the sec
ond is the old rule
Then followed some discussion of
the relations OF frogs to the condi-
tons favorable to sugar making. The
conclusion was that they only indi-
Gated the advance OF the season.
There WAS an old time incident OF
the rcighborhooa, which though now
forgotten, occurred since the Johnson
boys Went TO Michigan, and which r.
had promised to tell them OF after the
girls left, sand they now claimed a per
torrance.
You know can tell story, and
TINS Is not.a story and has no come
out OF any sort" was his hesitattng
preliminary lie was no great talker
at the best. 81 hat Is the rule now,
sand Dan, who remained "A man be-
gins any where IN the current ct every
day lie, takes a commonplace person
or two and sticks to them Tor year
or so, tells usually what they don t do
ami the reason or no reason why, and
drops them. As yours is ali about a
ghost
"A ghost that Is not ghost" put
IN the roposed narrator.
"Nho haunted an old barn thirty
by fortv'---
"Or didn't, interjected Monroe.
"Or didn't accepted Dan, ut will
run in the line OF the present school
exactly
There was Il pause OF n moment.
when Roswell. his back to the fre
threw his head up suddenly sideways
a way OF his-and bean.
at was about tbjs ti,o ~ ,aor
and inst surh 81 swell Of wa,tbsr ~